Week 4: Post 2
According to the rationality premise the average person can be trusted to make good decisions. After talking this over with my roommates, I have decided that yes I do believe that most people are capable of discovering the truth through logical analysis. Democracies as well as free enterprise are both social institutions that are based on this premise.
In the case of the perfectibility premise, I do not believe nor do I care if people are born into sin or if they achieve goodness later in life. I believe that people are born with a clean slate and what we do either makes our slate dirty or keeps it clean, if that makes sense. And obviously this premise is used in the teachings of many religions.
I definitely agree with the mutability premise which assumes that human behavior is shaped by environmental factors. The fact that general education follows this premise makes me agree with it all the more because of how important education is in life. Education is not only important because it gets your better jobs and presents you with more opportunities but if the whole world was educated, it would be a much better place.
posted by Eleanor Rigby @ 5:34 PM
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2 Comments:
Existentialism is a good way of looking at things. I don't know if I would call myself an existentialist, but I agree that life is what we make of it. There are rare occasions when people are born into situations with tough circumstances, but it's up to the person to decided whether to fight or give up. If a person chooses to give up then it's that person making that decision and it has nothing to do with circumstances out of their control.
I also agree that education is important in our lives. It's really what helps mold individuals. It's the place where we learn how to do just about everything.
I like how you said that you think that people start life with a clean slate, and honestly I couldn’t have put into words any better. I also couldn’t agree more with how you say "education is not only important because it gets you better jobs and presents you with more opportunities." There was a point and time when after doing college for a year, I was fed up with school and uninterested in what I was studying and I contemplated dropping out of school. Thankfully I realized that I needed to change my surroundings to alter my state of mind and it helped me realize that school is important not just because of the educational aspect but because of all the people you meet along the way, which in many ways brings you connections to better opportunities in life.Or at least it did in my own life.
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